On 12/15/2012 10:59 PM, Robert Obermeier wrote:
> Added missing Kconfig option KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC which lead to a dead 
> ifdef block in kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c:73-75.
>
> The code using KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC was originally introduced in 
> commit '5d5314d6795f3c1c0f415348ff8c51f7de042b77' by Jason Wessel.
> This patchset ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)")
> added platform independent part of kdb to the linux kernel.
>
> The Kernel option however, even though it had the same options and 
> behaviour on all supported architectures, was part of the x86 and
> ia64 patchset of KDB and therefore not pulled into the mainline kernel tree.
>
> I actually took the originally written Kconfig by 
> Keith Owens <k...@sgi.com> (2003-06-20 according to KDB changelog)
> and changed it to reflect the correct behaviour,
> as the KDUMP patchset is not part of the kernel and the expected 
> functionality is missing from it.

This is in my merge queue.

Thanks,
Jason.

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